Queen Victoria and the Romanovs by Coryne Hall Book Review
*contains affiliate links* Queen Victoria’s relationship with the Romanovs began with the tragic tale of her aunt Juliane, whose disastrous marriage to Grand Duke Konstantin […]
Queen Victoria
Lillie Langtry – “The Jersey Lily” (Part two)
Read part one here. Within a month of meeting each other; the Prince of Wales and Lillie were an item, and Lillie was regarded as […]
Lillie Langtry – “The Jersey Lily” (Part one)
Emilie Charlotte le Breton, known as Lillie, was born on 13 October 1853 on the channel island of Jersey. We know little of Lillie’s childhood […]
The young Queen meets the old Queen
In the early morning of 27 April 1895, the royal yacht De Valk brought two Countesses van Buren from Vlissingen to Queenborough. The Countesses were, […]
The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement by Arianne Chernock Book Review
Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 until 1901, would have been the perfect forerunner for the women’s movement but unfortunately, the nineteenth-century feminists were to […]
The Year of Queen Victoria Roundup
I hope you have found The Year of Queen Victoria as interesting as I have. We have looked at the circumstances surrounding her birth, her […]